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I'm in health tech and one killer feature would be being able to route and store an individual's requests through and data in a particular location. So I can deploy a health app backend that allows its users to decide where to put their data.
You probably would have to handle a lot of the logic by yourself for privacy and security reason, but I think this is a nice primitive to start from.
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How much of the raise is directly attributable to the fact that their early staff has at least two excellent writers on it? Their brand marketing is impeccable as a result. Every post on their blog comes through with this very clear, slightly snarky voice. If you want to be a famous hacker, you must also be a slightly (industry) famous author.
Genuine question - what does being a hacker have to do with being an author?
Doing stuff isn't enough - you also need to communicate to the Earth that you have done stuff.
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Some variation is okay, but boy do i need pricing caps. I might give it a try just for security (not managing the OS), but if there's no caps.. oof.
I’m unaware if there’s caps, the pricing just seemed opaque to me due to poor monitoring tools. Security wise, Ubuntu LTS with unattended upgrades and livepatch is likely better than 99% of public facing servers.
Will you be publishing a follow up blog post about how you’re increasing API user fees once you’ve monopolized your particular market? Or how about how you’ll be increasing margins for investors in 5 years as you prepare for your IPO? Why won’t you suffer the fate of every single other tech company that raises a shit load of money which is completely and irrevocably selling out any pretense of being beneficial for cu…
Fly.io marketing is top notch. Unlike fly.io, https://controlplane.com lets you run at the edge, super easily but on any compute substrate, not just on one vendor's (Equinix). Your own machines, your own AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle, Hetzner, Linode, Contabo, etc. accounts, or on Control Plane's many locations in all clouds. On Control Plane you instantly define a "Global Virtual Cloud" made up of any location you specify…
"We raised a bunch of money" Generally speaking (I'm not a fly.io customer) at this point that phrase WORRIES me as a customer of any service. It makes me think that the company exists just on a constant flow of VC or similar money and what I'm using or paying for isn't a realistic or future cost and I'm involved with a system or platform that is getting stretched larger and larger regardless of income and the more m…
Probably a couple more years of good service until they get acquired. They're leaps and bounds better than the container services on AWS and Azure, solidly better than the GCP one. Seems like they could sell to get their exits before too long. Although I would be very happy if they had the pain tolerance to continue as their own company.
It's gonna be a sad day when they get bought by a larger company and this writing style is crushed by corporate monotony.
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> They literally run physical servers all over the world ... I've got to imagine then that this business has huge capital costs, and it's nearly impossible to grow a very capital intensive business without outside capital. I genuinely struggle to understand how Fly.io managed (manages) to have this much physical server presence to date, having raised only ~$16M prior to this round. Hire a dozen engineers and that mon…
The short answer is that none of our regions are so big that we have to own our own top-of-rack switching yet (though some are getting close), so we can take a random spot in (say) an Equinix rack, rather than having to engineer a network (we run our own BGP for Anycast, but our uplinks are just DAC connections to our upstream providers switches. For what it's worth: we've been on our own hardware ever since we launc…
"We raised a bunch of money" Generally speaking (I'm not a fly.io customer) at this point that phrase WORRIES me as a customer of any service. It makes me think that the company exists just on a constant flow of VC or similar money and what I'm using or paying for isn't a realistic or future cost and I'm involved with a system or platform that is getting stretched larger and larger regardless of income and the more m…
> It makes me think that the company exists just on a constant flow of VC or similar money and what I'm using or paying for isn't a realistic or future cost and I'm involved with a system or platform that is getting stretched larger and larger regardless of income and the more money they raise the harder the fall will be. This is where I always get burned. As they get larger and larger, and the product gets more comp…